This. I just started playing with Linux desktop in a VM and I’m not sure if it’s because it’s virtualized but I’ve had to kill plasma and relaunch or reboot several times because KDE is playing silly buggers.
You could try booting KDE neon Unstable in a VM on the same machine. If you can still reproduce it I’m sure the KDE devs would appreciate a bug report.
In fairness to KDE, yes, VMs absolutely can cause issues, and it’s likely you’d experience fewer of them if you ran it on real hardware.
But yeah, Plasma is relatively buggy. This is improving at a rapid rate, though - Plasma 4 and early Plasma 5 were straight up unusable, hence distros flocking to Gnome (KDE actually used to be the standard!)
The difference in stability between Plasma 5.27 and versions before about 5.16 is night and day. And Plasma 6 has been repeatedly pushed back so that it can be stable from the get-go.
I’ll check the version later. I wonder if Debian is using an old version and it’s worth enabling back ports for plasma. Ultimately I’m after stability, hence picking Debian.
Debian doesn’t ship bugfix releases of our software. If you want a stable experience in the actual meaning of the word instead of just something that doesn’t change, almost every other distro will be a better choice
I have a new workstation arriving next week that will be dedicated for work and I want to first try Linux. Everything I need has a Linux client, and I have a license for VMware workstation which also has a Linux version so I can boot up Windows if I need to.
I love the speed. KDE can be made to look really nice. But I picked straight up Debian as that’s the distribution I’ve been using for servers for years and I wanted stable. Maybe I need to go to Arch.
This. I just started playing with Linux desktop in a VM and I’m not sure if it’s because it’s virtualized but I’ve had to kill plasma and relaunch or reboot several times because KDE is playing silly buggers.
You could try booting KDE neon Unstable in a VM on the same machine. If you can still reproduce it I’m sure the KDE devs would appreciate a bug report.
https://neon.kde.org/
Plasma 5 has been rock solid for me on real hardware.
In fairness to KDE, yes, VMs absolutely can cause issues, and it’s likely you’d experience fewer of them if you ran it on real hardware.
But yeah, Plasma is relatively buggy. This is improving at a rapid rate, though - Plasma 4 and early Plasma 5 were straight up unusable, hence distros flocking to Gnome (KDE actually used to be the standard!)
The difference in stability between Plasma 5.27 and versions before about 5.16 is night and day. And Plasma 6 has been repeatedly pushed back so that it can be stable from the get-go.
I’ll check the version later. I wonder if Debian is using an old version and it’s worth enabling back ports for plasma. Ultimately I’m after stability, hence picking Debian.
Debian doesn’t ship bugfix releases of our software. If you want a stable experience in the actual meaning of the word instead of just something that doesn’t change, almost every other distro will be a better choice
Try antiX, void lxde, obarun jwm, see the difference.
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No Wayland. Stable ≠ modern ≠ secure
Thanks I’ll look those up.
I have a new workstation arriving next week that will be dedicated for work and I want to first try Linux. Everything I need has a Linux client, and I have a license for VMware workstation which also has a Linux version so I can boot up Windows if I need to.
I love the speed. KDE can be made to look really nice. But I picked straight up Debian as that’s the distribution I’ve been using for servers for years and I wanted stable. Maybe I need to go to Arch.